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Best Practice Guidance for Digital Contact Tracing Apps: A Cross-disciplinary Review of the Literature

JMIR MHealth and UHealth, 2021
BackgroundDigital contact tracing apps have the potential to augment contact tracing systems and disrupt COVID-19 transmission by rapidly identifying secondary cases prior to the onset of infectiousness and linking them into a system of quarantine ...
Michael E O'Callaghan, Jane Walsh, Jim Buckley   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Comparison of contact tracing methods: A modelling study. [PDF]

Infect Dis Model
Introduction: Contact tracing has been a key tool to contain the spread of diseases and was widely used by countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, evaluating the effectiveness of contact tracing has been challenging.
Tan JXR, Kurupatham L, Said Z, Chan J, Tan KB, Ho M, Lee V, Cook AR.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Community-engaged COVID-19 contact tracing initiative in Chicago. [PDF]

J Clin Transl Sci
Introduction: During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) partnered with 31 community-based organizations (CBOs) to implement contact tracing to identify and manage potential COVID-19 infection cases in ...
Kim SJ, McWhirter N, Lee S, Patel A, Hebert-Beirne J, Hershow R, Stiehl E.   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Contact tracing – Old models and new challenges

Infectious Disease Modelling, 2021
Contact tracing is an effective method to control emerging infectious diseases. Since the 1980’s, modellers are developing a consistent theory for contact tracing, with the aim to find effective and efficient implementations, and to assess the effects of
Johannes Müller, Mirjam Kretzschmar
exaly   +3 more sources

Performance and utility of contact tracing for COVID-19 in the WHO South-East Asia Region: implications for future pandemic preparedness. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Southeast Asia
Summary: Contact tracing was widely implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its real-world performance and utility for decision-making remain poorly understood.
Bannister-Tyrrell M, Teague K, Strachan DL, Barrett A, Marthias T, Strachan CE, Doungngern P, Thakur N, Kamal M, Brindle H, Jinnai Y, Kato M, Vogt F.   +12 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Lessons for future outbreaks from successful contact tracing systems in Asia. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health West Pac
Summary: Countries around the world had utilized contact tracing to support public health responses to curb transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tan JXR, Oshitani H, Khanh LP, Jitpeera C, Ferretti L, Cook AR.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Clustering based Contact Tracing Analysis and Prediction of SARS-CoV-2 Infections [PDF]

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems, 2022
INTRODUCTION: Contact tracing is a method to track the victims, which have been infected from the host with any particular disease.
Meenu Gupta, Rakesh Kumar, Sunil Chawla, Sunny Mishra, Sourabh Dhiman   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of the impact of guideline communication from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services among US healthcare providers: COVID‐19 prevention counselling guidance

Nursing Open, 2023
Aim To evaluate healthcare provider awareness and uptake of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) billing for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) prevention counselling and the delivery of prevention counselling to patients awaiting severe ...
Melanie M. Taylor, Arkaprava Deb, Bernita Frazier, James Reiss Lueken, Mansi Das, Joanna Molke, Erin Fitzgerald, Tom Ullian, Ridhu Nair, Marion Couch, Caitlin Turbyfill, Libby Horter, Cecilia Joshi, Nickolas DeLuca   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the impact of contact tracing with an agent-based model for simulating the spread of COVID-19: The Irish experience

Healthcare Analytics, 2023
Contact tracing is an important tool in managing infectious disease outbreaks and Ireland used a comprehensive contact tracing program to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Elizabeth Hunter, Sudipta Saha, Jwenish Kumawat, Ciara Carroll, John D. Kelleher, Claire Buckley, Conor McAloon, Patrica Kearney, Michelle Gilbert, Greg Martin   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Proactive Contact Tracing.

PLOS Digital Health, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an unprecedented demand for interventions that can reduce disease spread without excessively restricting daily activity, given negative impacts on mental health and economic outcomes.
Prateek Gupta, Tegan Maharaj, Martin Weiss, Nasim Rahaman, Hannah Alsdurf, Nanor Minoyan, Soren Harnois-Leblanc, Joanna Merckx, Andrew Williams, Victor Schmidt, Pierre-Luc St-Charles, Akshay Patel, Yang Zhang, David L Buckeridge, Christopher Pal, Bernhard Schölkopf, Yoshua Bengio   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source